Reflect:
After reading Chapter 7, please reflect on the questions below and post your response by Monday. Feel free to respond to the questions provided or share something else that you intentionally did differently in regards to facilitating meaningful math discourse.
Please note: the prompts below are to help you reflect. There is not an expectation for you to respond to all {or even any} of the provided questions!
Respond:
After reading Chapter 7, please reflect on the questions below and post your response by Monday. Feel free to respond to the questions provided or share something else that you intentionally did differently in regards to facilitating meaningful math discourse.
Please note: the prompts below are to help you reflect. There is not an expectation for you to respond to all {or even any} of the provided questions!
Respond:
Planning for Mathematical Discourse
- Choose a task that has the potential to elicit multiple solution paths from your students. The task should engage students in "doing mathematics" {see chapter 3} and allow for use of multiple representations {see chapter 6}. Clearly list the goals that detail the mathematics students will be learning in the lesson.
- Anticipate the solution paths, both correct and incorrect, that students might use in working on the task, and prepare assessing and advancing questions to use while monitoring their work.
- Decide on a possible sequence of solution paths that you might use during the whole-class discussion of the task, and make note of purposeful questions for connecting student approaches to the targeted mathematical ideas.
- Teach the lesson and reflect on how your careful planning helped you manage and facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse that more purposefully moved students toward the intended learning goals.
Interact:
On Tuesday, read your colleagues' reflections and respond to at least one other post by sharing a comment, insight, or interesting possibility by Friday.
On Tuesday, read your colleagues' reflections and respond to at least one other post by sharing a comment, insight, or interesting possibility by Friday.
